enthusiastic - Story 44665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The steel doors slammed shut. "Well, isn't this serendipitous!" I thought. I beamed at Ben. He didn't look as though he shared my mindset.

My shoulders seemed to spring up to my ears. I began to pace, taking stock of the situation. "Three hours… the possibilities are endless!" I announced, feeling a thrill surge through me.

I checked my phone, which, of course, had no signal. "We can do this!" I chirped, feeling a pleasant warmth. "We should start making a list of things to do, games to play, or conversations to have."

Emotion: enthusiastic

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.81 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.04

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion enthusiastic. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 enthusiastic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the enthusiastic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the enthusiastic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.734
`!`	0.715
`excitedly`	0.591
`!"`	0.575
`🤩`	0.575

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.925
`ness`	-0.507
`😞`	-0.456
`それでも`	-0.348
`বারবার`	-0.325